Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Nightman said:
I also never got it, nor did I know anyone who got seriously ill from it...or worse.

Also, like you, I firmly believed that we'd be in-and-out of lockdowns for longer and that uncertainly badly affected me at the time.

Personally, I look back on it now almost like a fever dream; it's difficult to remember the feelings from the changes to our daily lives, losing our routines, the basic freedoms we took (and now take again) for granted being lost. It's almost like it never happened.

You have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about.
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That is so true, looking back it feels like a blur and a dream all mixed into one. Talking to my boyfriend on the phone before he moved in with me, then on Zoom when we both got it to work, quizzes at the end of every week to keep the team at work feeling unified, clapping every Thursday night followed by noise in later weeks, daily briefings from Boris, closed doors football matches, annoying memes like the one with a crowd, a speech bubble suggesting to go to the pub, then one in reply going "Don't be stupid, it's not safe" (which really did my nut in) and stupid terms like "Lockdown 2.0" and a Christmas lockdown thanks to living down South........ It just feels like all that stuff never happened whenever I look back on it, but with everything being over until further notice, was draconian as you could get.

Definitely no need to feel guilty anymore, the only guilt that exists is not following the rules giving it to someone else and I always followed them.
 
SussexToffee1980 said:
That is so true, looking back it feels like a blur and a dream all mixed into one. Talking to my boyfriend on the phone before he moved in with me, then on Zoom when we both got it to work, quizzes at the end of every week to keep the team at work feeling unified, clapping every Thursday night followed by noise in later weeks, daily briefings from Boris, closed doors football matches, annoying memes like the one with a crowd, a speech bubble suggesting to go to the pub, then one in reply going "Don't be stupid, it's not safe" (which really did my nut in) and stupid terms like "Lockdown 2.0" and a Christmas lockdown thanks to living down South........ It just feels like all that stuff never happened whenever I look back on it, but with everything being over until further notice, was draconian as you could get.

Definitely no need to feel guilty anymore, the only guilt that exists is not following the rules giving it to someone else and I always followed them.
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Add to that the many self employed people who weren't eligible for any help due to ludicrous technicalities in case a handful of normal people tried to defraud it (while companies were defrauding the furlough scheme for £millions and contracts were being given to mates of MPs). Many of these being in industries that were deemed "dangerous" and fully shut down for the greater good, with no real indication that they might ever return.

Fair to say I won't be forgetting that I am clearly not a valued member of society as a self employed person. Or at least not of a class high enough to be give such freedoms, which I'm guessing is the real issue.
 
RAFUH said:
Just because...

Effect of Higher-Dose Ivermectin for 6 Days vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With COVID-19

Conclusions and Relevance Among outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19, treatment with ivermectin, with a maximum targeted dose of 600 μg/kg daily for 6 days, compared with placebo did not improve time to sustained recovery. These findings do not support the use of ivermectin in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.
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It was mainly academic stalwarts @Ashtonian and @dholliday who were pushing this if I remember rightly.
Seems
Like years ago now
 
Nightman said:
I also never got it, nor did I know anyone who got seriously ill from it...or worse.

Also, like you, I firmly believed that we'd be in-and-out of lockdowns for longer and that uncertainly badly affected me at the time.

Personally, I look back on it now almost like a fever dream; it's difficult to remember the feelings from the changes to our daily lives, losing our routines, the basic freedoms we took (and now take again) for granted being lost. It's almost like it never happened.

You have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about.
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Same here. Well, if I have had it, I haven't known and I did a lot of them tests.

For me, Covid demonstrated how fragile society is, and how easily and quickly civil liberties can be taken by the state.
 
COYBL25 said:
The curtain twitchers, the snitches, the people who’d admonish others when outside, for “ encroaching “ on their personal space, the people who walked around outside in the sunshine, wearing a mask and glaring at those who didn’t.
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We all lived through it in our own bubbles I guess. But I saw none of that. That said, its probably cos Nikki came home 2 or 3 weeks before lockdowns started, and I had been advised, well told, by the NHS that although she was well enough to come home, she was hugely vulnerable if the virus got her. So I was an absolute anorak about minimising any risk to her. So when Johnson did that presser telling everyone what to do, we had been doing just that for a few weeks anyrate.

So I experienced mostly nice stuff; the Sainsbury's staff rushing me through the checkouts cos they knew about her, same with the chemist, for example. It was never a big thing, just a quiet expression of understanding that whilst we were all in it together, we can still try to help others if we can.
 
COYBL25 said:
The curtain twitchers, the snitches, the people who’d jump all over others when outside, for “ encroaching “ on their imaginary personal space, the people who walked around outside in the sunshine, wearing a mask and glaring at those who didn’t.
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Good. I'm glad they snitched. I did and I would again for the safety of me and my family.
 
Hinchcliffe's Corner said:
Good. I'm glad they snitched. I did and I would again for the safety of me and my family.
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It really brought the best and worst out in some people.

Who’d have ever thought, that something as simple, as going out for a run, could end up in a near fist fight, all because some Mail reader, deemed you to be a danger to society, for breathing out in the open air.

If there‘s ever anymore lockdowns, I’m taking a bally and a cosh out with me, on my runs.
 
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